
Satan is bound by the desolate condition of the earth, for there is no one to
deceive. Rev. 20:1-3. The saints who have been taken to heaven by the Lord
live and reign with Christ a thousand years. Rev. 20:4, last part.
13. While the saints live and reign with Christ in heaven for a
thousand years, what will they be doing? Dan. 7:21, 22; Rev. 20:4;
1 Cor. 6:2, 3.
NOTE.—During the thousand years, or millennium, judgment is given to
the saints. Rev. 20:4, first section. They join with Christ in reviewing the
lives of the wicked dead, upon whom sentence is then passed. The loosing
of Satan (Rev. 20:7) is accomplished by the resurrection of the wicked. Satan
goes forth to deceive the nations for the last time. Verse 8. The Holy City
having come down from God out of heaven, the wicked surround it, hop-
ing that under the leadership of the great deceiver, they can take it. Verse
9. At this time fire comes down from heaven and destroys them. Rev.
20:9, 10, 14, 15. The earth, purified, becomes the abode of the saints, the
Holy City the center of its life, and God Himself dwells with them. Rev. 21:3.
Note these parallels: On the Day of Atonement when the work of cleansing,
or judging, was complete, and the sanctuary was cleansed, the sins of the
people that had accumulated during the year were placed on the head of the
scapegoat, and he was led away by a fit man into the wilderness. So likewise
at the close of the judgment work, when the heavenly sanctuary is cleansed
of the sins of the centuries, Satan, the great antitypical scapegoat, and his con-
federate angels are left on the desolate earth, confined to that territory where
he had led the nations to destruction.
Lesson 11, for September 11, 1943
To Honor God's Servants Is to Honor Him
MEMORY VERSE: "Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able
to stand before envy?" Prov. 27:4.
STUDY HELP: "Patriarchs and Prophets," pages 382-386, 395-405 (new ed., pp.
387-391; 403-413).
Aaron and Miriam Speak Against Moses
1. What wrong course did Aaron and Miriam take in their rela-
tionship to their brother Moses, the leader of Israel? Num. 12:1, 2.
NOTE.—"In
the appointment of the seventy elders, Miriam and Aaron had
not been consulted, and their jealousy was excited against Moses. . . . Yield-
ing to the spirit of dissatisfaction, Miriam found cause of complaint in events
that God had especially overruled. The marriage of Moses had been displeas-
ing to her. That he should choose a woman of another nation, instead of taking
a wife from among the Hebrews, was an offense to her family and national
pride. Zipporah was treated with ill-disguised contempt. Though called a
`Cushite woman,' the wife of Moses was a Midianite, and thus a descendant
of Abraham. In personal appearance she differed from the Hebrews in being
of a somewhat darker complexion. Though not an Israelite, Zipporah was
a worshiper of the true God. . . .
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